The New River, an online journal associated with Virginia Tech, isseeking works of electronic literature or new media by current students or recent graduates from electronic literature or new media programs. The journal intends to publish its next issue in spring 2011.If you know of a current student or recent graduate whose work you would recommend, could you either send a link to Alan Bigelow at eabigelow@gmail.com or encourage them to submit to The New River, also via the same email address?Also if you could pass the word on this, that would be terrific… The deadline for first-round submissions is late February, 2011. For previous issues of the journal, please visit http://www.TheNewRiver.us

Alan Bigelow writes digital stories for the web that use images, text, audio, video, and other components. These stories are created for viewing on the web, although they can be (and have been) shown as gallery installations.
Alan Bigelow was the 2011 winner of the BIPVAL international Prix de Poésie Média. His work, installations, and conversations concerning digital fiction and poetry have appeared in Turbulence.org, Rhizome.org, SFMOMA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, 14th Japan Media Arts Festival (The National Art Center, Tokyo), FAD, VAD, FreeWaves.org, The Museum of New Art (MONA, Detroit), Art Tech Media 2010, FILE 2007-2012, Blackbird, Drunken Boat, IDEAS, New River Journal, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and elsewhere.
Recently, in addition to teaching full-time at Medaille College, he was a visiting online lecturer in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, UK.
You can see Alan Bigelow's work at http://www.webyarns.com.